What Will Ferrell Can Teach Us About Finance

Think Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s comedy “The Other Guys” is nothing but buddy comedy antics and jokes? Think again. Because Wahlberg’s character spends the entire film being confused about the financial details of the white collar crime the duo is investigating — and who (or what) the Federal Reserve is — director Adam McKay saw fit to end his film with an educational tutorial about Ponzi schemes and a series of statistics about the amount of bonuses paid to AIG executives and more. As McKay said in one interview, “All those old cop buddy movies are about drug smugglers, and after a while it gets kind of quaint… And you laugh at (white collar crime) in the movie, but at the end of the day you say, ‘Whoa this is some serious stuff.’”

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